In 1960, painter Wayne Thiebaud's brilliantly colored images of pies, candy and hot dogs seemed worlds apart from the severe abstractions then fashionable in the serious art world. But when a New York gallerist took a chance on the struggling Californian, his paintings sold like proverbial hot cakes. Today, his canvases hang in the world's great museums, and routinely fetch millions of dollars at auction. For half a century since, Thiebaud has continued to paint, print and draw, finding an otherworldly beauty in the everyday objects of this world: food, clothing, shoes, tools, city streets. The representational skills he learned as an illustrator and cartoonist in the 1930s and '40s, combined with a keen critical sense and a thorough command of the history and traditions of painting, have given his work solidity and staying power that transcend the changing tastes of the times. Wayne Thiebaud has shared his gifts with the world, not only as a working artist, but over a lifetime of teaching, developing the skills and critical faculties of succeeding generations of artists. His paintings, seen firsthand, convey a visceral delight to the beholder, while his works in reproduction have indelibly colored our view of the American landscape.
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Drawn to everyday objects and typically American foods as the subjects of his art, Wayne Thiebaud began painting still lifes such as Pie Counter in the early 1960s. He was particularly attracted to these subjects because of the rituals and cultural meanings that surrounded them. As he explained, “Pie has a long history and it has other implications: the idea of ‘Pie in the Sky,’ the old American preoccupation with Mom and Apple Pie, pie throwing contests, pie throwing in Chaplin films. One makes a pie out of ordinary stuff, like raisins, squash or apples and gift wraps it, in a sense with a crust. It’s very magical, very special.” In Pie Counter, as in other paintings, Thiebaud used vernacular foodstuffs to explore composition, color, light, and texture. Unlike most of his Pop art contemporaries who were eliminating the nuances of touch in their work, he exploited the physical properties of paint to mimic the look and feel of the substance depicted. Here, the paint imitates the gestural strokes a baker might make when frosting a cake or spreading whipped cream across a pie. By combining this physical treatment of paint with the rigid geometry of triangular pie slices and circular plates, arranged in a grid composition against the counter’s neutral background, Thiebaud made a work that is simultaneously representational and abstract.
All year the 3rd graders have been asking me, "When are we going to use clay?" and now we finally are! One of my very favorite artists is Wayne Thiebaud (pronounced T-bow). Wayne Thiebaud is known...
Wayne Thirbaud's 'Three Ice Cream Cones'. Acrylic on stool. 12" diameter.
Veteran artist Wayne Thiebaud -- who will turn 93 on November 15th -- isn't slowing down a bit. His current one-man show at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery, Memory Mountains, consists of 31 paintings and 17 works on paper and fills both floors of the gallery.
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